Chapter 88: Marching into Bremen (Happy New Year to everyone, please follow-up)
"You are blaspheming, you are sinning, and you will be punished by the gods, and you will not be born beyond the generations."
At the entrance of a small monastery, a priest could not help but curse as the monastery was looted by the red-eyed servants.
It's a pity that no one paid any attention to his swearing.
The chastise of the gods, the joke.
If the soldiers of the peasants were still fearful when they first sacked churches, temples, and monasteries, there have been countless similar situations now, and everyone is still alive and well, and the fear of the gods has turned into a desire for power and wealth.
The Count of Otto said that after the war, everyone would have the opportunity to become a nobleman.
If you can become a nobleman, what gods are you afraid of?
The gods walk on earth, those priests, when have they been in charge of the nobles, if the gods really want to be punished, it should be those nobles and sanctimonious priests who should be punished.
The blue-robed priest was still cursing.
One of the knights who was in charge of overseeing the operation finally couldn't take it anymore, drew his saber and stabbed it from behind.
"Damn it, you priests! The gods will only thank us! ”
After witnessing the evil deeds of the Church in Saxony, the knights of Franconia had a good opinion of the Church at an all-time low.
After seeing the other man's body slowly fall to the ground, the knight snorted coldly and drew his sword, took the handkerchief from one of the squires, wiped his long sword, and spat on the corpse.
"It has defiled my sword."
The knight looked up at the monastery that was starting to glow not far away, and said with a frown.
"Tell the Saxons to hurry up, there are two monasteries waiting for us today."
More than twenty minutes later, the soldiers of the servant army, covered in blood with various things, ran out of the monastery one after another, and behind them, the fire of the monastery and the afterglow of the setting sun reflected each other, forming a special scene.
"Young master, I have caught another group of nobles, what should I do." Bard asked Otto in a low voice as he looked at the map.
"Do you need to ask?" Otto didn't look up, and continued to mark the map. "Old rules, kill them all, remember, let those Saxons do it."
"But... Young master—" Bud hesitated.
"It seems that the nobles caught this time are all good people, and after questioning the local peasants, they have not done any evil.
Moreover, they did not participate in this rebellion. ”
"Hmm—" Otto paused, thought for a moment, and then remarked the map.
"Then be incorporated into the servant army and give them the status of an ally.
Didn't participate in the rebellion, but they didn't help the Duke to quell the rebellion, did they?
If they want to keep their honor and title, prove it with the blood of their enemies.
They may be allowed to gather the soldiers and peasants of their territory into an army, if they are willing to continue to obey their orders. ”
"Young master, I understand." Bud nodded and exited the tent.
Since his separation from Werner, Otto has traveled lightly, bypassing fortified castles and sacking only easy targets. For example, small wooden or muddy castles, villages and ecclesiastical buildings in various places, etc.
In just over a month, the number of troops under Otto has continued to swell, and the servant army following Otto now has more than 12,000 people.
On the other hand, the Oldenburg and Minden regions have become largely uninhabited.
Now, Otto is leading his army to attack the northern Saxony town of Bremen.
This is also the area where the Church is extremely powerful, and it is the base camp of Bishop Jason.
It's a pity that before the arrival of Otto's army, the Bishop of Jason fled ahead of schedule with the backbone of the Saxon Church under the escort of the knights of the Church, and it is said that he went to Braunschweig and did not formally confront Otto.
Because of the other party's escape, this saved Otto a lot of trouble.
According to the original information, the Church in Bremen was able to mobilize at least a few thousand troops, but due to the escape of the church's top brass, Otto did not meet with decent resistance during his march.
Without the overall command of the church's top management, although the church's targets are guarded, how can that little guard force resist the attack of the wolf-like servant soldiers?
Today, there are only a handful of difficult-to-attack targets in Bremen that are not in Otto's hands, and Bremen City is one of them.
This time, Otto did not choose to let go of the city of Bremen, because Bremen, as the parish capital of the Saxon Church, had a large number of priests and church property.
The clergy could have run, but with so much property, it was not so easy to transfer.
Therefore, Otto himself stationed his army under the city of Bremen, and scattered his barons and knights, each with a small army of servants, to continue to attack other areas, and finally converge on Bremen.
Of these, the stad region, which was under the responsibility of Bard, now has only a few strongholds in the hands of the Saxons.
Otto's biggest concern now is the Hamburg area that El is attacking.
Because Limbert, the Count of Hamburg, did not go south to confront the Duke of Franconia, but stayed in his own domain.
If one is not careful, there is a real chance that El will overturn.
However, Otto has already assigned half of his guards to El, and even if the attack does not go well, he should be able to protect El.
In this war, El did perform well, which made Otto a little unexpected.
It seems that after this battle, you have to find a daughter-in-law for Er, preferably if your father-in-law is powerful and has only one daughter. After all, with Otto's merits this time, it shouldn't be difficult to get a count's position from the Duke of Franconia.
As for the Duke of Bach, who was supposed to stop Otto, he was entangled by the Count of Werner.
Otto's series of victories, in addition to the increase in the number of his own army, the number of troops in Werner's hands is also increasing, Otto gave at least a third of the servant army to Werner, so that Werner has enough cannon fodder.
The Duke of Bach now had 5,000 troops at his disposal, and the next 2,000 men, supposedly reinforcements from the Church, were still unable to catch up with Otto.
Werner firmly followed through Otto's idea of holding Bach back, even at the cost of heavy casualties.
The vast majority of those who died were Saxons, and Werner was not distressed.
As long as Bach pursued Otto's army with his troops, Werner attacked Bach, and once Bach turned back to fight Werner, Werner lost part of his servant army and retreated, not fighting the other side.
Anyway, everyone is mainly infantry, and if I can't beat you, I won't run? Can I still let you wipe me out?
With Werner's soldiers constantly replenished, Bach kept winning the game, but the situation remained under the control of Otto and Werner.
The cavalry of the Saxons, for the vast majority, was in Kassel.
After Bach and Werner entered Oldenburg, Bach witnessed the purgatory on earth in front of him, his eyes were red, and he couldn't help but howl.
"Damn Otto, I'll break your body to pieces!"